| A more severe definition of objectivity that would require a measure of validity outside any tradition of inquiry or paradigm or episteme or habitus is simply uncashable. |
| Herbert aims to agglomerate intellectual movements in various disciplines and show the deep connections that make them part of a single episteme. |
| How are we to conceive of this new episteme, this new politics that creates intellectual power where mechanisms of discreditation and inferiorization are normally at work? |
| One gets the sense that he finds the Western episteme constraining, if not suffocating, in its insistence upon the ideological hold and closure of meaning. |
| There is episteme, which is connected with stasis, as mneme is with meno. |
